Kentucky State University 1983 Yearbook

1983

THOROBRED

KENTUCKY

STATE

UNIVERSITY

FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY

Tell Me
What You
Think About
the Thorobreds!

Nickname Explained

MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE Kentucky State
got its nickname of Thorobreds because
the state of Kentucky is noted for its
horses and the famed Kentucky Derby.
However, Dr. Henry Cheaney, a long
time KSU professor who recently retired,
said the name was coined from one of
the great football teams which included
National Championship teams in 1934
and 1937.

THE STORY GOES— He was talking to a
spectator about one of those great football
teams and said, "these boys run and play
just like a bunch of Thorobreds."

THAT STATEMENT GOT AROUND and
the nickname began to catch. Finally, the
name was adopted as the official nick-
name for all KSU athletic teams.

Table of Contents

Student Life 4

Campus Life 17

Athletics 59

Classes 81

Faculty /Staff 115

Acknowledgements 122

Sidewalks lead these students
to class where they work
towards centennial
excellence.

For most, class is a time
when students and teachers
discuss life and their part in
it.

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KSU students find many
ways to amuse
themselves; be it at a
dance, game room, or an
empty lot to throw away
a few frustrations.

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It is a combination of things
that make KSU a unique
experience for each student.

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We have grown, we have learned, and we have
experienced another year together at KSU.

FRESH OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL?

University freshmen spent the day at
a picnic given by President and Mrs.
Burse.

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The road taken to college was a
decision made by each one of us. The
first year will have good and hard
times; but hopefully, one will find
success. Time goes on, we mature,
and can look back at all of our
college experiences.

A unique,
architectural
structure, Hathaway
Hall is a center in
which many
students face the
coldest, longest
challenges in their
college career.

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During the Spring, KSU
comes alive and students
catch the annual spring
fever.

As the college years progressed,
friendships formed that would survive
future years of separation. However,
later in life, class reunions would
restore these bonds of friendship.

KSU Says
Goodbye to a
Dear Friend

THE TESTIMONIAL DINNER of Dr. Henry E.
Cheaney, a long time professor of history at the
University, was packed by more than 400 well-
wishers. Dr. Cheaney, who retired earlier this
year, dedicated 46 years of his life to KSU.

THE POPULAR PROFESSOR was flooded
with calls from well-wishers, including a
telegram from President Ronald Reagan.
Gov. John Y. Brown, Jr., made Dr. Cheaney
an Ambassador of Goodwill for Kentucky.

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DR. CHEANEY IS a hallmark of Kentucky
State University. He taught each of us to
dare to be different . . . He made each of us
better, stronger, wiser, and more courageous
because he passed our way.

A SCHOLARSHIP FUND of $10,000 was
established in Dr. Cheaney's name by
friends and alumni of the University.

Thorobred spirit
reached a fevered
pitch during the
homecoming game
against the Golden
Lions of the University
of Arkansas at Pine
Bluff that afternoon.

Miss K.S.U., Lata M. Thomas and
Escort Michael L. Kyle, Pres. S.G.A.

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SEVERAL EVENTS
HIGHLIGHTED THE
1982-83 ACADEMIC
YEAR.

Senator Julian Bond was the keynote speaker
at KSU's Fall convocation.

Senator Bond has the distinction of being the
first black to be nominated as a vice
presidential candidate, an honor he was
forced to decline because of his age, then 28, t
disqualified him for the office.

James Letton, President of the
National Alumni Association,
presents Senator Georgia
Powers with a plaque during
Alumni Weekend.

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Governor John Y. Brown holds a press conference concerning
KSU's Mission.

Alex Haley, the author of Roots, was guest
speaker, during Black History Month.

Haley's writing has won him the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Award.

Time Magazine has labeled Haley "a folk
hero" and his book Roots a cultural landmark.

Alex Haley is seen at the Press conference he
held at KSU.

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KSU HOLDS
10th CAREER
FAIR

KSU held its tenth annual Career
Fair in October. Representatives
from approximately 40 companies
and organizations participated by
setting up booths and discussed
career opportunities and training
with students.

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ROSEN WALD CELEBRATES 9TH ANNIVERSARY

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The Rosenwald Early Childhood Center
celebrated its 9th year in existence with
a candle lighting ceremony and
birthday cake.

Dr. Gary McGaha, Assistant Dean of
Educational Services, said the pre-school
shaped the lives of each individual, and
said he was happy "this program is an
integral part of KSU". McGaha also
added, "I am looking forward to all of
these children to become future
Thorobreds at KSU."

The Center was conceived in 1973, and
Bart Ashley was the first headmaster in
1974. Enrollment increased yearly, and
then in 1981, the Center was licensed
by the State of Kentucky, and now
serves 60 children from birth to five
years old.

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GRADUATION
1983

The day we thought would
never come. We have come
face to face with new
freedoms and new
responsibilities. Graduation —
a day of joy and sadness.

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HONORS
GRADUATES

1983 Honors Graduates — (first row, l-r) Pamela Coleman, Milly R. Noonan (nursing honors
graduate), Betsy Miller, Dawn Hale, Glenn Mitchell, Clifford Ward, Jr., Jane Anderson, Rhonda
Wilkins, (second and third rows, l-r) Lala Thomas, Melessa A. Brown, Anita Hogan, Sharon Mills
(nursing honors graduate), Julie Mabry, Ben Rice, Jim Patrick, Garrick Foxhall, Walter Banks,
(fourth row, l-r) Marilyn Christopher, Margaret B. Hurst, Kelly Lucas, Karen Cummings, Thomas
Hayes, Clement Carter, (fifth row, l-r) Samuel Bryant, Debra Chadwick, Donna Jackson, Martha
Phillips, Alice LeMaster, (sixth row, l-r) Henry Harned, Edward Warren, Nancy Shelton, and
Michael Standard.

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College graduation affects
not only the graduate. Along
with birth, baptism, and
marriage, it is a family affair.

KSU Thorobreds not only had a tough
schedule to play this season, but head
football coach Leroy Smith resigned,
following a 50-0 loss to Central (Ohio) State
University. Ron Mitchell replaced Smith
and coached the last five games of the
season.

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After winning three consecutive NAIA
national championships during the early
1970's, and compiling a sparkling 254-52
record during the decade and sending 11
players into the NBA during the same
period, KSU finds itself rebounding from
its worst basketball season in 16 years
and its second consecutive losing season.

Winning has been in short supply for the
Thorobred Basketball team in 1982. But,
Lykins instilled pride into a program
which seemed to have forgotten the glory
years.

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KSU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM
HAS WINNING SEASON

1982-83 Thorobred Women's Basketball Team

Darlene Sims Pamela Tate Jackie Stringer

(not pictured)

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Second year head coach, Ken Randle,
welcomed eight returning lettermen to
his squad this year.

If all this experience was not enough to
delight Coach Randle, 6' 0" Tiajuana Gill
and 6' 1" Sonya King, sister of Pam King
joined this year's team.

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KSU VOLLEYBALL TEAM CLINCHES
DISTRICT TITLE

1982-83 KSU Volleyball Team

Rhonda Beauford

Felicia Brown

Camille Coleman

Michelle Ford

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The KSU

Thorobrettes seized
the NAIA District 32
volleyball title by
defeating
Georgetown.

KSU Coach Ken
Randle was named
District 32 Coach of
the Year, while Julie
Mabry and Michelle
Ford were named to
the All-District
volleyball team.

KSU BASEBALL TEAM
SPRINGS INTO
ACTION

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Joyce Dotson

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Karon Taylor

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Arlandra Williams

Darian Woodbury

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Curtis Brown

James Davie

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Bruce Trent

Tonya Triplett

Yvonne Campbell

Medgar Clark

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RAYMOND M. BURSE: LEADING KSU

Kentucky State University work crews were
tired of hearing how shabby the school's
buildings had become. Their morale was
sagging. They needed a lift.
It was the perfect opportunity, a staff member
thought, for a pep talk by Raymond Burse,
the university's new 31 -year-old president.
Burse agreed to give the talk, but what
followed was a tongue lashing, not a morale
booster.

It turned out that the new president also was
tired of complaints about the disrepair of
buildings, which had caught the eye of
members of the state Council on Higher
Education. Burse's answer was: Get to work
and do something about it.
I don't want to hear any more complaints
from the council or the university regents or
anyone else, he told the startled workers.
The speech illustrated how the Hopkinsville
native perceives his job at the 96-year-old
university: "My primary reason for being here
is to turn this institution around."
Determined to rid the traditionally black
university of past management problems and
a troubled image, Burse has taken a tough
approach to get things moving.
"I did take a hard stand with the staff," Burse
said recently. "I felt we were not getting the
level of productivity for the compensation
they were paid."

Privately, some of the staff muttered, and
Burse heard what they were saying.
"I appear to be a 'young dictator', 'arrogant',
'insensitive'," Burse said. "But if I'm energetic
and work hard, I feel like I can ask pepole to
do the same."

There's another side to Burse, perhaps most
apparent to students, who have described him
as open, friendly and eager to improve their
lot.

"He's doing a whole lot of pulling to make it
better for the students", said Donald Booker, a
junior from Louisville. "Mr. Butts (Burse's
predecessor) didn't run the university. It
seemed like the people under him ran the
university. With Mr. Burse, you know who

runs things."

Burse became acting president last July,
succeeding William A. Butts, who resigned in
the face of a strong faculty opposition.
In October, Burse was named KSU's ninth
president.

He brings an impressive set of credentials to
the job. A star student-athlete at Centre
College, Burse spent two years as a Rhodes
Scholar at Oxford University. He went from
there to Harvard Law School and then
returned to Kentucky as a junior member of
the prestigious Louisville law firm of Wyatt,
Tarrant and Combs. Burse expects to sever his
ties with the firm next summer.
His term at Kentucky State began with some
skepticism. Doubters said that Burse was too
young and inexperienced to tackle the
challenges confronting the beleaguered
institution.

Founded as a segregated black college, KSU

TOWARDS CENTENNIAL EXCELLENCE

By Art Jester of the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader
Copyrighted 1983 by the Lexington Herald-Leader
Reprinted from the January 9, 1983, edition with permission

now has a white majority in its student body.
Of its 2,322 students this year, 59 percent are
white— many of whom attend part-time by
taking classes at night.

Five years ago, KSU embarked on a campaign
to increase enrollment, and in the process,
diluted admission standards. Consequently, its
freshmen have lower average entrance exam
scores than students at any of the state's other
public universities.

"The only requirement was you had to have
blood pressure and a heartbeat," Burse said.
Two years ago, KSU began fighting battles on
two fronts. Internally, dissatisfaction with
Butts intensified. Then the federal
government ordered Kentucky to remove the
last vestiges of segregation from its
universities. With that came an order that
Kentucky State be improved academically.
For a while, some members of the Council on
Higher Education contemplated other action.
First came a proposal to merge KSU with
another institution, then a plan to convert it
into a two-year community college.
Out of it all emerged Raymond Burse, the
member of the Council on Higher Education
who led a successful fight to retain Kentucky
State as a four-year institution.
Burse won time for the University and went
on to become president. In so doing, he took
responsibility for extensive changes at KSU
over the next five years.
Under the federal order, KSU is supposed to
concentrate on being a small, liberal arts
undergraduate institution. At the same time, it

is to provide training programs for state
employees, maintain its community college
program, and offer graduate courses in
cooperation with three other state universities.
The agenda — to be small and focused on the
one hand, and diverse and even diffuse on
the other — is demanding. But Burse is
confident and eager.

"I've got a mission now, a mission to make
KSU the best university it can be," he said. "I
don't want to miss the opportunity that's
available. Few people see the opportunity that
is there."

And the young president's supporters are
confident, too.

"Raymond can do anything he wants to do,"
said George Wilson, chairman of KSU's board
of regents and the state corrections
commissioner.

There is other, more recent evidence of
Burse's attempts to upgrade KSU. The
University is organizing a special honors
college that will be the most visible sign of
its new role as the state's only small liberal
arts university. Students in the program are
expected to rank near the top of their high
school class and will study a "Great Books"
curriculum in small classes.
The proposed College of Leadership Studies,
which will enroll 50 freshmen next fall, will
be closely watched as a critical indicator of
KSU's transformation.

Meanwhile, Burse is looking for solutions to
KSU's pressing needs: more money (he
estimates that KSU needs another $13 million
for capital improvements), better facilities,
better students, and a revamped image that
will make KSU an attractive option for
students of any race.
A tall order but he's not intimidated.
"There are few opportunities in anybody's life
to make a contribution like the opportunity
I've been given at KSU — building an
institution, changing its direction, doing
something I really believe in," he said.
"There's an opportunity for this university to
be anything it wants to be."

David Adams Arsenio Alfaro Ronald Banks C.A. Chacko

Assistant Professor Professor Assistant Director Professor

Math & Physics Modern Foreign Languages Planning & Placement Education! Psychology

Henry Cheaney William Cofield William Fleming Seth Gakpo

Professor Pre-Eng. Coord./ Admin. Research Director Instructor

History / Political Science Counselor Community Research School of Business

Peter Garcia Donna Gershman Alfonzo Greene Thamas Greenland

Professor Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Director/ Associate Professor

Education/ Psychology Health & Physical School of Business Testing Service

Education

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Patricia Griffith John Hardin Lee Harris Charles Humphrey

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Prof essor / Chairperson

Music History /Political Science Nursing Education Sociology

William Insko
Assistant Professor
School of Public Affairs

Ruth King
Associate Professor
Home Economics

Mildred Jacobs
Assistant Professor
Education /Psychology

Jerome Krueger
Assistant Professor
School of Business

Marvin Johnson
Associate Professor
Math & Physics

Dae Sung Lee
Professor

School of Business

Mahendra Kanthi
Assistant Professor
School of Business

Nedra Lundberg
Assistant Professor
English

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Ethel Mchendon
Assistant Professor
Sociology

Neville Morgan
Assistant Professor
Sociology

Dinker Patel
Principal Investigator
CRS I Sociology

Gertrude Ridgel

Professor / Program Director

Biology

Gus Ridgel
Dean I Professor
School of Business

Leroy Smith

Assistant Professor I Head
Football Coach
Health & Physical
Education

Alvin Seals
Associate Professor
Sociology

Leonard Slade
Chairperson / Prof essor
English

Josephine Smith
Associate Professor
School of Business

Dowell Taylor
Instructor I Band Director
Music

Richard Taylor
Associate Professor
English

Leola Travis
Professor

School of Business

Mary Twitty
Instructor
Criminal Justice

George Van Home Mahala Walker Herman Walston Martha Woelfel

Assistant Professor Director of CUP Associate Professor Assistant Professor

History / Political Science SDIP CUP/Home Home Economics Biology

Economics

Anna Wolfe Juanita Wright

Associate Professor Associate Professor

Education /Psychology Education /Psychology

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TO THE FOLLOWING
FOR MAKING THIS YEARBOOK

POSSIBLE

Dr. Sharon A. Walker
Mr. Joseph Gravely
Mrs. Jane Sparks
Mr. Joe Burgess
Ms. Janet Hoover
Mr. Ron Dial
Ms. Renetta Clay
Mr. Darryl Dubose
Mr. Jim Hall
Ms. Paula James
Ms. Rachel Smith

David Stringer
Winifred A. Wimberly
Co-Advisors